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How did Alice finally find the document?She tried the ____________ name “Nova”.
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I was about to despair of finding my passport _____ suddenly a woman found it.
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The woman had always been a slow driver.
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The police are trying to find out the ________ of the woman killed in the trafficaccident.
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_ the pros snd cons before making a final decision.
A、Balanced
B、Balance
C、Balancing
D、Balanction
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We finally get the best of the enemy after a different battle.
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The mother was a （） woman.
A．curious
B．disgusting
C．straight-forwar
D．energetic
E．strong-willed
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A nurse and her elderly uncle were waiting for a bus at a corner in downtown Chicago. Buses came by, not the one they wanted. The woman finally half-entered one of the buses and asked the driver if the bus she wanted stopped at that corner.
The driver looked at her but made no answer, so she repeated the question. To her surprise, he then closed the door, on her arm, and drove off.
The woman, her arm stuck in the door, ran alongside the bus, shouting. Passengers said the driver stopped after almost a block only because they, too were shouting.
When the driver finally did stop and open the door, the woman jumped on the bus to get his bus number. Then he took off again and went another couple of blocks before other shouting passengers persuaded him to stop and let the woman off.
After the driver' s bossed at a tax-support governmental company(CTA) heard of the incident, they looked into it and set his punishment: a five-day suspension (停职) without pay. That struck me as rather light.
But Bill Baxa, the company' s public-relation man, "That' s a pretty serious punishment.
Five days off work is a serious punishment for dragging a woman alongside a bus by her arm？ Baxa said, "Any time you take money away from someone, it is a terrible punishment. The driver make $14 an hour. Multiply(乘)that by 40 and you can see that he lost."
Yes, that come to $560, a good sum. But we know that people in the private company are fired for far less every day. If the people who run the bus company think that the loss of a week' s pay is more than enough, I offer them a sporting suggestion: Give me a bus. Then have their arms in the doorway of the bus, and I' 11 slam the door shut, shut the bus quickly and take them for a fast one block run.
And I'll pay $560 to anyone who is bold enough to try it. Any takers？ Mr Baxa？ Anyone？
I didn't think so.
The nurse half-entered one of the buses because ______.
A．the bus they wanted didn't stop
B．She wanted the driver to stop the bus
C．She wanted to get some information from the driver
D．She and her uncle couldn't wait any longer at the corner
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Why couldn't the woman find the repair shop？
A．She missed the fight turn．
B．The man gave her the wrong directions．
C．She W3S a bad driver．
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根据所听到的内容作答_____. A)The woman is out of shape． B)The woman doesn，t need a new racket． C)The woman also needs new tennis shoes． D)The woman spent too much on her tennis shoes．
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He finally __________ to find the reference book that he has been looking for.
A. tried
B. attempted
C. managed
D. ran
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Dr. Smith failed many times but he finally____to find a successful way to solve the problem.
A．broke off
B．broke down
C．broke out
D．broke through
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Woman: I am trying to find out how this dishwasher works. The manual is in French. I cant wait for Bill to translate it for me. Man: Dont worry, Mary. I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work. Question: What does the man mean？
A．He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher.
B．He will wash the dishes himself instead.
C．He will help Bill to translate the manual.
D．He himself will operate the dishwasher.
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听力原文：Woman: You know that some people will be there because they want to be and some will be there because they have to be. So it helps if you start with a joke or something that captures their attention, and if you stop on a high note as well, you’ll find most people go away feeling good. If you find you’ve got time left, you can use that for questions from the audience.
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听力原文：Woman: Of course, I was looking forward to it. I mean, it meant seeing the results of quite a lengthy process to find the right person, which I myself had invested quite a lot of time in. It's a demanding post, with a lot of responsibility. I think the new manager's going to deliver that sort of
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What was the woman's family like when she was a child？
A．They didn't have much money.
B．They didn't have enough to eat.
C．They didn't have many friends.
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Man. I am looking for an apartment with a monthly rent to around two hundred dollars in this neighborhood. Can you give me some advice on that？ Woman: Well, it's rather hard to find anything for less than three hundred dollars around here. Rents are lower in suburbs, but you need transportation if you choose to live there. Question: What do we learn from the conversation？
A．The man will probably have to find a roommate.
B．The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs.
C．The man will probably have to buy a car.
D．The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.
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Woman: I am trying to find out how this dishwasher works. The manual is in French. can't wait for Bill to translate it for me.
Man: Don't worry, Mary. I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work.
Question: What does the man mean？
A．He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher.
B．He will wash the dishes himself instead.
C．He will help Bill to translate the manual.
D．He himself will operate the dishwasher.
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Was the woman far away from a river？ Did she find it？ 查看材料
A.Yes， she was miles away from a river but she found it at last.
B.No， she was near a fiver and she found it without efforts.
C.Yes， she was far away from a river and she didn"t find it.
D.No， she was near a river but she didn" t notice it.
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Where does the woman say is the best way to find an attorney？
A．Online
B．In the telephone book
C．In newspaper classified ads
D．Through lawyers' organizations
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Which of the following may be TRUE for a woman's fashion in the 1850s？
A．A gown contained 1,100 yards of material.
B．A woman wrapped in an abundance of cloth,
C．The longer the cloth, the richer she was.
D．The attractive the cloth, the wealthier she was.
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Imagine that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate．Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner．But what happens if you take away one man？ You might not think this would make much difference．You would be wrong，argues Tim Harford，a British economist， in a book called The Logic of Life． With 20 women pursuing 19 men, one woman faces the prospect of spinsterhood． So she ups her game． Perhaps she dresses more seductively． Perhaps she makes an extra effort to be obliging． Somehow or other, she “steals” a man from one of her fellow women． That newly single woman then ups her game, too, to steal a man from someone else． A chain reaction ensues．
Real life is more complicated, of course, but this simple model illustrates an important truth．In the marriage market, numbers matter．And among African-Americans，the difference is much worse than in Mr．Harford's imaginary example．Between the ages of 20 and 29, one black man in nine is behind bars．For black women of the same age, the figure is about one in 150．For obvious reasons, convicts are excluded from the dating pool．
Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences．As imprisonment rates exploded between 1970 and 2007， the proportion of U.S.-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62%to 33%．Why this happened is complex and furiously debated．The era of mass imprisonment began as traditional mores were already crumbling， following the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the invention of the contraceptive pill．① It also coincided with greater opportunities for women in the workplace． These factors must surely have had something to do with the decline of marriage．
But jail is a big part of the problem, argue Kerwin Kofi Charles, now at the University of Chicago． They divided America up into geographical and racial “marriage markets”, to take account of the fact that most people marry someone of the same race who lives relatively close to them．② Then, after crunching the census numbers， they found that a one percentage point increase in the male imprisonment rate was associated with a 2.4-point reduction in the proportion of women, who ever marry．③ Could it be, however, that mass imprisonment is a symptom of increasing social malfunction, and that it was this social malfunction that caused marriage to wither？④ Probably not. For similar crimes, America imposes much harsher penalties than other rich countries．Mr. Charles and Mr. Luoh controlled for crime rates, as a substitution for social malfunction, and found that it made no difference to their results. They concluded that “higher male imprisonment has lowered the likelihood that women marry...and caused a shift in the gains from marriage away from women and towards men.”
阅读以上文章，回答 87～91 题
第 87 题 The word “ensues” in Paragraph 1 probably means __________．{Page}
[A] to result in something
[B] to happen after something
[C] to be welcome
[D] to be interrupted temporarily
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When I was walking down the street the other day, I happened to notice a small brown leather wallet lying on the sidewalk. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could find out the owner's name. There was nothing inside it except some change and an old photograph—a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old, who looked like the woman's daughter. I put the photograph back and took the wallet to the police station, where I handed it to the desk sergeant. Before I left, the sergeant took down my name and address in case the owner might want to write and thank me.
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had also invited a young woman so that there would be four people at the table. Her face was familiar. I was quite sure that we had not met before, but I couldn't remember where I had seen her. In the course of conversation, however, the young woman happened to mention that she had lost her wallet that afternoon. All at once I realized where I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photograph, although she was now much older. She was very surprised, of course, when I was able to describe her wallet to her. Then I explained that I had recognized her from the photograph I had found in the wallet. My uncle insisted on going to the police station immediately to claim the wallet. As the police sergeant handed it over, he said that it was amazing that I had not only found the wallet, but also the person who had lost it.
The wallet which the writer found ______.
A．was empty
B．had some money in it
C．had a few coins and a photograph in it
D．had an old photograph in it
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听力原文： Britain has finally won a medal at the a...
听力原文： Britain has finally won a medal at the athletics World Championships in Helsinki. The UK team came in third in the men's 4×100 metres relay to take a bronze medal. France came first and Trinidad & Tobago won silver. Britain's Jason Gardener, Marion Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis and Christian Malcolm had been hoping for a gold after the U.S. team crashed out. The defending champions had failed to qualify after Mardy Scales and Leonard Scott made a mess of the first changeover. Britain's failure until now to win a single medal has been a major embarrassment for UK athletics.
Which country won the goal medal in the men's 4×100 metres relay？
A．Britain.
B．France.
C．Trinidad & Tobago.
D．The United States.
